Hi Mathieu
I realize that my question wasn´t that good formulated. The Point from my side was not about the Point cload information delivery, as you wrote there is already very good ways to stream Point cload data through projectwise. I didn´t either mean to deliver huge decartes datasets with draped ortos/images in stm:s.
My point is that in smaller Projects "cityplans, 3d city models, analyze models (shadow,solar etc.) is a need to be able to publish outside microstation enviroment as you do when printing to paper or generate an 2d/3d pdf.
In my mind:
The limitations of the area or the information is up to the producer as even the quality settings of the Product. But as in this case when a excellent new feature as stm is in Descartes,new element types added to Microstation enviroment should also be suported as any old microstation element type. This lack of interoperability is not god at all, I have bad experiences from this types of non interoperability elements in Bentley Map that doesn´t fully working with plain Microstation(read only).
So what I mean with all this. Is there a new element type added it should also be functionality and with options to handle the new type through different settings. The stm is great feature but I need to get it to work fully in microstation.
Back to basic issue:
Have you got any news of possible settings to pltcfg file that could reduze the size of stm raster.
BTW!! Have you tested to generate/print an 3d pdf from a part of your huge stm Project, try to limitate the area with all known microstation trix (fence, clip etc.), when I have done this there is a lot of suprices that pops up inside the 3d pdf. The view what you see in pdf is only a part of the information that has been generated, if you check the outside information of the visible "image" you see that there is hidden information.
Regards
Tom